[Video] Q37: No change or no longer valid or not ok anymore or henceforth bereft of legitimacy

Explanation for Question 37 From the Writing Section on the 2020 March Sat

So for question 37, our best answer's going to be, 2 be no longer valid. So let's take a look at this sentence to see 3 why no longer valid is the best phrase to use in this part of 4 the sentence. It says that after Greece gained independence in 1832, 5 however, some argue that the agreement Elgin had made with the Ottoman empire was 6 blank and that the sculptures had to be returned. 7 Right. And we can see generally from what these, 8 um, what these answer choices are saying is that they want to invalidate that 9 agreement, right? The agreement should no longer be, 10 uh, active or held. And if we look through the rest of this passage, 11 right? And so if you're at this point, you've already read some of the 12 paragraphs in this passage. We can see that we're really talking in a formal 13 tone. Right? Um, for example, 14 let's find a good sentence. 15 This is honestly a good sense that shows the formal tone, 16 right? We're using words that are generally, 17 um, academic they're scholarly. We're not using conversational or colloquial language. 18 And so that's why a is going, or B actually rather is going to 19 be the best answer because it holds that formal tone without using conversational terms. 20 And then it also does. So in the most straight forward way as well, 21 without being repetitive or using too many words, 22 that kind of confuse the sentence. So the reason a and C is wrong 23 is because of the colloquial terms totally is 24 kind of like a conversational wor...